Author:
Ameredes Bill T.,Sethi Jigme M.,Liu He-Liang,Choi Augustine M. K.,Calhoun William J.
Abstract
Interleukin (IL)-10 is an anti-inflammatory cytokine implicated in the regulation of airway inflammation in asthma. Among other activities, IL-10 suppresses production of nitric oxide (NO); consequently, its absence may permit increased NO production, which can affect airway smooth muscle contractility. Therefore, we investigated airway reactivity (AR) in response to methacholine (MCh) in IL-10 knockout (−/−) mice compared with wild-type C57BL/6 (C57) mice, in which airway NO production was measured as exhaled NO (ENO), and NO production was altered with administration of either NO synthase (NOS)-specific inhibitors or recombinant murine (rm)IL-10. AR, measured as enhanced pause in vivo, and tracheal ring tension in vitro were lower in IL-10−/− mice by 25–50%, which was associated with elevated ENO levels (13 vs. 7 ppb). Administration of NOS inhibitors NG-nitro-l-arginine methyl ester (8 mg/kg ip) or l- N6-(1-iminoethyl)-lysine (3 mg/kg ip) to IL-10−/− mice decreased ENO by an average of 50%, which was associated with increased AR, to levels similar to C57 mice. ENO in IL-10−/− mice decreased in a dose-dependent fashion in response to administered rmIL-10, to levels similar to C57 mice (7 ppb), which was associated with a 30% increment in AR. Thus increased NO production in the absence of IL-10, decreased AR, which was reversed with inhibition of NO, either by inhibition of NOS, or with reconstitution of IL-10. These findings suggest that airway NO production can modulate airway smooth muscle contractility, resulting in airway hyporesponsiveness when IL-10 is absent.
Publisher
American Physiological Society
Subject
Cell Biology,Physiology (medical),Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine,Physiology
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